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Kis magyar néprajz a rádióban (10.)
A farsang; Farsangi rabvágás
- Issue: 2022/1
- Starting page: 10
- Author: Jávor Kata , Ujváry Zoltán
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In Hungary the Carnival – or Farsang – season begins on January 6th and ends on Ash Wednesday with the beginning of Lent. Traditionally the most exciting celebrations happen at the end of the period – on Shrove Tuesday. Customs contain elements that reach back to European Pre-Christian times. The opinion of the church in the Middle Ages was: „…there is no other day in the entire year when the devil claims so many as his slave under the yoke of evil.” In Hungary, city carnival customs have pretty much died out with the exception of the carnival balls. Many more customs survived [at the time of publication] in the villages. Carnival celebrations include masquerading as spirits from hell/characters from the devil’s celebrations, men dress as women, women as men, etc. By Jávor Kata and Ujváry Zoltán from: Kis magyar néprajz a rádióban. RTV Minerva, Budapest 1978.